Adjusting SoapUI for simple REST web service

I have REST web service based on Jersey that runs on TomCat 9 in my Eclipse IDE.

Server runs fine while test with broser:

openning link http://localhost:8080/messenger/webapi/messages

brings:

<messages>
<message>
<author>koukushik</author>
<created>2019-02-20T12:48:41.817+02:00</created>
<id>1</id>
<message>Hello World</message>
</message>
<message>
<author>koukushik</author>
<created>2019-02-20T12:48:41.817+02:00</created>
<id>2</id>
<message>Hello Jersey</message>
</message>
</messages>

I'm trying to do the same in SoapUI 4.5.1:

I do:

New SoapUI project:
    project name: "pro1"
New REST Service
    Service name: "serv1"
    Service endpoint: http://localhost:8080/messenger/webapi/messages
New REST Resource
    Name resource1
    Resource Path/Endpoint http://localhost:8080/messenger/webapi/messages
New REST Method
    Method_1
    GET

Do request RAW:

GET http://localhost:8080/messenger/webapi/messages/messenger/webapi/messages HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Host: localhost:8080
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)

Answer HTML:

<html lang="en">
   <head>
      <meta content="HTML Tidy for Java (vers. 26 Sep 2004), see www.w3.org" name="generator"/>
      <title>HTTP Status 404  Not Found</title>
      <style type="text/css">h1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} h2 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} h3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} body {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} b {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} p {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;} a {color:black;} a.name {color:black;} .line {height:1px;background-color:#525D76;border:none;}</style>
   </head>
   <body>
      <h1>HTTP Status 404  Not Found</h1>
      <hr class="line"/>
      <p>
         <b>Type</b>
         Status Report
      </p>
      <p>
         <b>Message</b>
         Not Found
      </p>
      <p>
         <b>Description</b>
         The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists.
      </p>
      <hr class="line"/>
      <h3>Apache Tomcat/9.0.14</h3>
   </body>
</html>

Looks like GET method contains HTTP/1.1 at the end. Is that problem? How to make SoapUI work with my project?

UPD

Works fine now:

Solution

The problem is that the URL you are trying to access as seen in the RAW request is not the one you want which as a result returns you a 404 status code

Please try the following settings